Thai Traditional Medicine: Ancient Thought and Practice

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  • JEAN MULHOLLAND
چکیده

It is not always appreciated by those who are accustomed to providing or receiving the benefits of the complicated and highly sophisticated modern, or European, system of medicine that by far the greater part of the world's population depends, and has depended for thousands of years, on other systems of medicine for the prevention and treatment of illness. These systems have survived, not just because no alternative is available, but also because they appear to produce results.

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تاریخ انتشار 2011